. >> what's a real inspiration to me is don fitzsimmons. >> reporter: at 88 don may be the only veteran from world war ii. >> the only wars we have is on a baseball diamond. >> trouble, trouble. >> reporter: you don't have to be a vet to play and yet so many here served. >> we're all team players and the military shares the team. that's the way you're raised, boy scouts and rotc. >> reporter: make no mistake, they take america's pastime seriously. >> good-bye of. >> reporter: and were the years, you can't ignore them. sometimes they just catch up. >> one of my outfielders was playing for pleasant hill about five years ago and actually died on the field, but that's part of getting old. >> reporter: but they don't complain and they don't quit. >> i was pitching and i got a line drive right here and it broke the tibia from here up to the knee. >> reporter: you ever think about maybe stopping? >> no. >> reporter: because something about this game calls to them. it calls to these men who grew up on the diamond. >> at 88 i think i maybe have a year or two left. so far no one told me to get of